It’s been a couple of weeks since the top of the filament storage box was completed. In the time since, I’ve been working on the bottom. The first thing that had to be done was to add a drain for the water from the dehumidifier. I did this by adding an aluminum hardpoint glued to …
With the sides of the box completed, it was time to glass the top. The layup itself was pretty straightforward, since it’s just a flat piece of glass that laps onto the sides and back. I added aluminum hardpoints for the screws that will hold the electronics enclosure and another hardpoint that can be used …
A year or so ago I got a propane-heated vertical smoker, which I’ve been using to make some pretty decent ribs and pork shoulders. It keeps temperature fairly well, but not well enough that you can just ignore it. Since the only way to read the temperature was to look at the mechanical gauge on …
Since the last filament storage post, the storage tube assembly was microed into place. I covered the foam around the hole with duct tape to prevent getting micro on the foam surface, and poured slurry into the holes. The idea was to get enough slurry into the holes that it just filled all the empty …
The work on the filament storage box has lately focused on what to do with the filament tubes when they’re not used. The box will fit up to 8 1kg rolls of filament (or 4 3.5kg rolls), and those filaments will exit the box in PTFE tubing through the bottom of the box so they …
After 4 sides of the box were assembled, it was just the top left. This should have been quick but was delayed by the need to first bond the bracket that will hold the circulation fan to the inside surface. Had I designed the box today, with the intent to use the bed heater, I …
After starting to assemble the filament storage box, I was distracted by the house fumigation and repairing the Flightradar24 antenna, but this weekend I finally had time to apply the corner tapes to the inside corners. This is pretty simple, the idea is to apply a strip of fiberglass cloth to join the two sides …
Back in 2014, I built a Franklin antenna, and a small fiberglass post to mount it on our roof, to receive ADS-B broadcasts from airplanes with a flightradar24 receiver. We recently had our house fumigated for termites, and since this involves enclosing the entire house in an air-tight tent, it was safest for the antenna …
Progress on the filament dryer was stalled over the summer since all free time went into the repainting of the room. The next thing to do on the box itself was to figure out a way to mount the internal circulation fan, figure out how to run the wires, and assemble the panels into a …
Last year, we stripped and repainted the blue “library”. This summer, Kathy decided that her home improvement project during the break would be to strip the lead paint from the “office”. I moved my work setup into the blue room and she worked on stripping the paint and then the whole paint prep started again. …
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